The final report of the City Growth Commission puts a figure on failure: £79billion. That is the missed economic opportunity of the UK’s most significant metros failing to grow at the same rate as the UK average. It is also ...
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In our very first report, Metro Growth: The UK’s economic opportunity, the City Growth Commission presented an evidenced case arguing that economic growth is driven by cities. We’ve since set out to identify the ways in which ...
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The power of inertia within government is often held to blame for a raft of failures: chronically poor IT systems, unnecessarily bureaucratic management practices, and inefficient, ineffective policy initiatives, to name ...
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The UniverCities report will be published 14 October with a launch event in Cardiff. If you’d like to attend, register here.
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What’s clear is that we are now at the beginning of a new process of constitutional change that won’t just be about Scotland. As David Cameron has made clear, not only will new powers now have to be negotiated for Scotland, ...
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The City Growth Commission takes a predominately economic approach
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A week into my Research Intern post at the RSA and amongst the swarm of buzz words, project titles TLAs, people’s names and lunch recommendations there is already a glimmer of the range and impact of the RSA projects.
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Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Joe Hart might soon be on a plane home from the World Cup, but the Chancellor backed England’s chances if the best players from each of the Premiership teams in the north were brought together. ...
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"It is a paradox of our age, that as digital connectivity enables more of us to work remotely, clustering becomes even more important in the creative, knowledge economy," so began Rohan Silva at the fifth and final seminar ...
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The UK needs more homes to live in. Many more, every year, than are being built. On this there is now political consensus at the national level. Both Labour and Conservative politicians are trying to convince voters that ...
